Suspicious beard terrorist poster parody imitates life

Mr Atrocity says:

Picture 3-94Last week, like many others, I contributed a satirical take on the Metropolitan Police's barmy new poster campaign to the boingboing thread on the subject. I tried to think of the daftest thing I could with which to prove the point that the whole campaign was on the silly side. I chose beards. This is my poster: Link

I found a comment on the image this morning from this poor gentleman linking to his story about actually being stopped under the 2000 Terrorism Act for having, it would seem, a suspicious beard: Link

Once again, the authorities prove themselves madder than anything we can conceive of in jest. Run to the hills, people.